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Will Ebay change its drastic cut in affiliate commissions?

It looks doubtful one thing for sure, many people have jumped the Ebay ship because of the drastic changes they made in the affiliate program, in fact for the most part thousands went from making money to making nothing…

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Well the results is in, the new Ebay pay for clicks is an alleged failure.

at least in our tests, it fails, for a number of reason, the least of which is metrics, but more importantly, what did they do?

Well it is obvious to us at least they took the focus from buying activities to clicking activities, and that was well just plain stupid.

We say that was stupid because you can literally spend all day clicking and never buy a thing, it is the buyers that make all the difference.

not the clickers, but ebay in yet another alleged stupid move, changed every thing up once again, and they paid an alleged very big price for doing so, but hey dont take our word for it, take a look at the cold hard numbers…

we have to ask this because it appears that this is indeed the end result, it may not have been the desired result, (cough, cough) but yes this is what it did, why change it all up, because what you see below is a result of the new “better” ebay system, I for one an looking for a better program…

As you know Ebay had a good thing going, they had millions of websites out there advertising for them, they had a lot of business coming in by these affiliates.

yet, they had to change it, they could not just let it be successful.  Oh well, we were moving our traffic to ebay but now we have just lost the will to do that mostly because of the changes that ebay made that just basically stopped all commissions from coming in.

We have pulled all our PPC campaigns for ebay.

We have pulled most all of our advertising for the ebay program.

The reason is clear there is no reward, there is no reason to support ebay because of how they changed the game to benefit themselves.

They will regret this, but hey time changes, ebay used to be a good place to move your website traffic, now they are not.

So it is time to look for another company that actually pays a commission, that is the real problem these days is finding a good company that pays a commission.

Before they changed…

After they changed…

Is this the end for Ebay affiliate programs that used to be profitable?

Looks like a flat line to me, pronounced dead at 1201 am oct 1 2009

May ebay rest in pieces, as commissioned sales flat line across the board.

do you notice how your commissions are gone now?

Why not tell about it we would love to compare notes, and more so if you happen to know a good alternative to ebay because we have taken down all our ebay related advertising.

In the past our network was profitable however with the new affiliate system it appears we will not profit at all, so we went from a good profitable situation to a zero profitable situation, so we will be pulling all of our Ebay partner advertising over the next 2 weeks.

If you find that you also have been eliminated, and can no longer retain profits then you should seriously consider alternate networks that are not so hands on in the process of pushing the little guys out of business.

Here is a previous screen shot of how we profited before the change and below that will be a screen shot of how it looks now, the difference is obvious and it is obvious why this has been done, personally and my opinion only here is that this will hurt Ebay in the long run, a shame really but no surprise when people who have no training make business decisions.

Before

As you can see in the after picture there is nothing under Earnings, this is what we expected, however we wanted to wait, and if there is a change we will post that change, however we feel like the new changes were designed to eliminate small vendors like our network from being profitable, again that is just our opinion and may not be accurate, but so far it sure looks like a bad thing, much like the mistakes that amazon made recently, followed by a drop in revenue, I expect to see a drop in ebay stock and quarterly profits as well.

So why do they get greedy? no one knows for sure but one thing is clear the people in charge at Ebay are not in the right place with regard to vendors and sellers.

Stats before the change

Here is a screen shot after the new system